‘Mirror Images’ - Maya Irgalina at The Spring
Saturday 11 October 7.30pm
The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre
56 East Street, Havant PO9 1BS
Box Office 02392 472700 Monday to Saturday 10am-4pm, and 45min before the show
Bar opens 6.30pm before the show
Cafe 10am-3pm Saturdays
Museum 10am-4pm Saturdays
“With variety of musical beauty so high on her agenda, she’s a keyboard virtuoso without you realising it – until she astonishes you with something slipped in from her impressionist, baroque, romantic, jazz or contemporary repertoire. She so easily transports you away from the here and now”
Bach – Toccata in E minor BWV 914
Rachmaninov – Piano Sonata No 2
Debussy – Images Book II
Ravel – Miroirs
Maya Irgalina’s Interview Concert at Worthing’s @rtsspaces@sionschool in 2023 featured Debussy’s Reverie, Beethoven’s extraordinary Tempest Sonata, four Schubert-Liszt song transcriptions including the sinister Doppelganger and the thrilling The Erlking, Mompou’s landscape tone poem The Lake, two substantial Kapustin pieces of jazz-classical cool, and Uehara’s crazy cartoon showstopper The Tom and Jerry Show. An artistic offering of enormous range of mood, atmosphere, variety and drama.
Most of Maya’s concert programmes include the element of Water. It can surge, swell, sway – or even simply sit. Also among that music she brought to Worthing was Ravel’s A Sailing Boat on the Ocean. At The Spring, this swirling seascape-on-a-keyboard reappears in its original surroundings as the fourth Miroir. Ravel was a classical jazzer (Gershwin wanted to study with him!), so there lies another affinity of Maya’s we’re about to experience at The Spring. Notice there’s also water on the way in her Debussy.
At Worthing, Maya spoke in the musical languages of composers from France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Russia and Japan. Now it’s merely Germany, Russia and France, but look at all these titles below and tot up the number different pictures she’ll paint at Havant in these masterpieces.
• Bach’s gives us a toccata plus an adagio resting between two fugues, in a crackling crisp fourfold excursion of economy and punch
• Rachmaninov’s Sonata is a mountain range and an emotional expedition that is his own shaved and trimmed-up version of his original. And despite what he left out, it’s a work you don’t hear live unless the performing pianist is, first, up to the technical and expressive challenge and, second, has the daring. (There aren’t fireworks on Maya’s picture for nothing!)
• Debussy’s six ‘Images’ come in two Books of three, and we’re having the second Book, comprising
1 ‘Bells Heard through Leaves’ – steeples, towers or hand bells, do you think? Pealing or tolling? Both?
2 ‘And The Moon goes down on the Temple which Has Been’ – Far Eastern gamelan sounds and vibrations, a key Debussyan fascination
3 ‘Goldfish’ – rarely still . . .
• Ravel’s five ‘Miroirs’ aren’t the kind you’d find somewhere in a handbag or on grand hotel walls. They’re not static. They’re filmic
‘Night Moths’
‘Sad Birds’
‘A Sailing Boat on the Ocean’
‘The Jester’s Morning Song’
‘The Valley of the Bells’
And there’s one other link ripe for your anticipation – bells ringing. You’ve just spotted the French ones? Well, they’re the well-known obsession of Rachmaninov. And do you think he can keep them out of his Sonata No 2? Your ears will tell you!
Check out the 'Discussion' section in the September and October weeks for additional information about this concert, quotes and pictures.
Maya's action picture from her 2023 Interview Concert in Worthing by Stephen Goodger
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